SCOTTISH football can boast some of the most horrendous pieces of transfer business concluded anywhere in the world so, on the back of our Mike Ashley revelations today, we compile five of the worst.

In homage to that Record Sport's Anthony Haggerty lists five other rank rotten bits of business in the history of sport.

1: Fernando Torres - £50 million (Liverpool to Chelsea in 2011)

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Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres joined Liverpool in 2007 from Atletico Madrid and he became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals.

Torres left the Reds in January 2011 to join Chelsea for a record British transfer fee of £50 million, which made him the most expensive Spanish player in history.

In his first full season at Chelsea, Torres won the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, despite receiving widespread criticism for a comparatively low goal-scoring record.

The following season he scored in the final of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, helping Chelsea to win the competition for the first time.

However Torres netted 65 goals in 102 league games for Liverpool and just 20 in 110 league games for Chelsea earning him the unwanted moniker of being one of the most expensive flops in English Premier League history at a cost of £2.5 million per goal.

2: Tore Andre Flo - £12 million (Chelsea to Rangers in 2000)

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Tore Andre Flo

Tore Andre Flo was sold to Rangers from Chelsea in a record £12 million deal making him the most expensive Norwegian player ever, the most expensive SPL player ever and the club's most expensive player ever.

Much was expected of Flo but, although he started off well by scoring on his debut in a 5–1 victory over Celtic, he did little to justify the £1.9 million in wages that he reputedly trousered from his two year stint with the Light Blues.

3: Rafael Scheidt - £6 million (Gremio to Celtic in 1999)

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Rafael Scheidt signed for Celtic for £6m in 1999 but made just a handful of apearances

The signing which defined the John Barnes/Kenny Dalglish era at Celtic. The Brazilian defender signed for £6 million and failed to make an impact at all.

Scheidt was plagued by injury and found it hard to settle he started one game in 1999-00 against St Johnstone and was loaned to Corinthians by new manager Martin O’Neill after just three appearances. Scheidt was once labelled the second worst transfer in the history of soccer in an article published in 2001.

4: The Curse of the Bambino - Babe Ruth sold from Red Sox to New York Yankees in 1919

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George Herman (Babe) Ruth

The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004.

This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth, sometimes called 'The Bambino' to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919–1920.

Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles.

5: DeAngelo Hall - Oakland raiders defender 2008

After trading draft picks to Atlanta in order to get Hall, the Raiders sealed the deal with a ridiculous contract that included $70 milllion over seven years and $24.5 million guaranteed. Hall was “unable to adapt to the Raiders’ man-to-man style of defense”.

By November he was released by the Raiders, who did so to avoid having to pay an additional $16.5 million in injury-guaranteed bonuses. Hall made $8 million in eight games played as he earned a staggering $1 million dollars a game.

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